[HN Gopher] Using BBS with my Amiga 3000 in 2021 ___________________________________________________________________ Using BBS with my Amiga 3000 in 2021 Author : doener Score : 56 points Date : 2021-12-12 17:35 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.epsilonsworld.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.epsilonsworld.com) | makach wrote: | The machine that never dies. | johnklos wrote: | Literally. The Amiga 3000, at least, is incredibly easy to | recap. Even without all the possible upgrade options, the base | machine with 16 megs of fast RAM, two megs of chip RAM and a | decent drive on the SCSI bus is wonderfully usable. | aidos wrote: | I just feel like nothing is going to convey the excitement we got | from BBSs in the early 90s. We used to cycle over to this guys | house (he had TWO phone lines!) on our BMXs and hand over $10 for | some connectivity. | owlbynight wrote: | I get some nostalgic value out of using SyncTERM to connect to a | BBS and poke around, but the only things I really miss are the | ANSI art and the hyper-local feel of the chat. | | BBS's were my introduction to networking and I love them, but I | think I'm too spoiled by advances in user experience. I'd love | some kind of a modern hybrid. | sekao wrote: | > I'd love some kind of a modern hybrid. | | I'm working on it. A BBS with a built-in ANSI art + MIDI music | editor, accessible from terminals and web browsers, all | unicode, no telnet. Ready later this month most likely. | | It's hard to replicate the local feel of BBSes though. You | can't really enforce local usage on the modern internet, and it | wouldn't be great for privacy if you could. But the rest we can | do. | snvzz wrote: | NComm works fine and does a decent job on my A500. | | On the A1200, I prefer Term. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-12 23:00 UTC)